The Lincoln Highway The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway

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Publisher Description

Brought to you by Penguin.

Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.

In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.

With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.

But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.

Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.

'Finely observed and beautifully written. Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller.' JEFFREY ARCHER

© Amor Towles 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
EB
Edoardo Ballerini
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:39
hr min
RELEASED
2021
21 October
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
524.9
MB

Customer Reviews

'IreneM' ,

Layered, original and absorbing

Tautly rendered characters in this deeply insightful novel leave the reader in a constant state of suspense.

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